180hp was no slouch back the. Many v8s came with the same or less. Including Ford’s 5.0 (which I’m running in my Mustang).
Was there more than one? The 5.0 (Ice, Ice, Baby) that I remember in early 90's Mustangs was rated at 225.
Readit NewsHeyLaughingBoy commented on Tested: 1981 Datsun 280ZX Turbo (1981) caranddriver.com/reviews/... · Posted by u/RickJWagner
HeyLaughingBoy commented on Tested: 1981 Datsun 280ZX Turbo (1981) caranddriver.com/reviews/... · Posted by u/RickJWagner
I also totalled my first Nissan. I'm sorry everyone, that was 100% my bad. I'm glad Nissan made a lot of them.
That car had the digital "Heads Up Display" on the windscreen that a lot of modern cars are getting back now. I wonder why it fell out of fashion for three decades?
Are we setting a trend here?
I swore to the cop that the tree just jumped out in front of my 280Z.
HeyLaughingBoy commented on Tested: 1981 Datsun 280ZX Turbo (1981) caranddriver.com/reviews/... · Posted by u/RickJWagner
0 to 60mph in 6.8 seconds.
The 0-60mph time for a 2025 Ford F-150 pickup truck is 5.8 seconds. Today's "performance" cars are in the 2 to 3 second range.
It was a more leisurely time.
I remember in the late 80's/early 90s reading a Car & Driver special publication on "affordable used sports cars" (I ended up with a 1975 280Z for $2,000 in great condition). They made a point that "the sports cars of the 60's are easily beaten, at least in a straight line, by today's average family sedans."
I remember this every time something like a Cadillac Escalade leaves my 21-year-old 350Z in its dust...
HeyLaughingBoy commented on Tested: 1981 Datsun 280ZX Turbo (1981) caranddriver.com/reviews/... · Posted by u/RickJWagner
I’ve been restoring a 240z in my garage, it’s on a rotisserie…
Got a l28 turbo waiting to be refreshed as well.
I should stop working on this refactor and go work on it.
Nismo is coming out with a new DOHC head for the car... https://japanesenostalgiccar.com/nismo-dohc-nissan-datsun-l-...
There was also this gent who made his own DOHC off of a Honda head.
https://forums.hybridz.org/topic/119641-twin-cam-head-for-th...
ISTR that Speedhunters made a gear-driven DOHC head for it.
HeyLaughingBoy commented on It’s been a very hard year bell.bz/its-been-a-very-h... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
You're just begging the question.
What are examples of these "new applications" that are needed every day? Do consumers really want them? Or are software and other companies just creating them because it benefits those companies?
Most of the software written worldwide is created for internal company usage. Consumers don't even know that it exists.
I've worked (still do!) for engineering services companies. Other businesses pay us to build systems for them to either use in-house or resell downstream. I have to assume that if they're paying for it, they see profit potential.
HeyLaughingBoy commented on It’s been a very hard year bell.bz/its-been-a-very-h... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
Has anyone considered that the demand for web sites and software in general is collapsing?
Everyone and everything has a website and an app already. Is the market becoming saturated?
And new companies are created every day, and new systems are designed every day, and new applications are needed every day.
The market is nowhere close to being saturated.
BLE could do that too via advertising packets. I don't know if any devices actually do though.
Also the connection process isn't power-prohibitive for BLE, and it doesn't have to take a long time. It's just that most Bluetooth software stacks suck balls. Basically only Apple's is good.
As I recall BLE only supports hosts connecting to 7 peripherals simultaneously which is a bit rubbish, but if you're a gym with some custom ANT+ receiver you can definitely get a custom BLE receiver that can connect to more devices (assuming someone makes such a thing).
Many devices put the data into the Manufacturer-specific part of the advertising packet. It's a workaround. The problem is that it's non-standard so if you're a provider of data management for group fitness you have to have custom code for each manufacturer (and sometimes different devices from the same manufacturer). And it's especially fun when the manufacturer's published data spec doesn't match what the device actually puts out!
I don't know how difficult it would be to connect, grab a bunch of data and disconnect from 24 BLE devices in a one-second period, which is pretty much what you'd need to be an effective workaround for ANT+. In a competitive environment, data from each device changes very rapidly.
HeyLaughingBoy commented on Dumb Ways to Die: Printed Ephemera ilovetypography.com/2025/... · Posted by u/jjgreen
True; in fact mortality in 17th-century London was so bad that it required a net flow of migrants just to keep the population stable. Most of all, you were at much higher risk of plague during the plague epidemics.
But rural Europe was no picnic either - you would still be likely to die in all sorts of painful ways, from sepsis, diseases, accidents, childbirth, etc. And my god, it would have been dull.
Honestly, if you forced me to go back to the 17th century, I would probably take the risk and live in London. At least there is the possibility of crossing paths with Samuel Pepys, Christopher Wren, the early Royal Society etc. while you sit in your coffeehouse reading a freshly-printed news sheet.
> while you sit in your coffeehouse reading a freshly-printed news sheet
A PhD student once mentioned to me that when people envisage themselves in history, they always assume they'd be upper class. No one ever thinks that they'll be poor :-)
"In 2025, Garmin announced that they would end their certification for ANT+ devices, blaming changes in wireless communication regulations. This is likely to lead to future devices dropping ANT+ support in favour of BLE."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANT_(network)
I believe that's what the author was referring to when describing it as failed, but yes, this could've been worded better.
That's interesting. As the article says, ANT's main use case is in commercial gym equipment. What the article doesn't say is the reason: it excels at gathering data for "group fitness". ANT is a connectionless protocol so in a situation where you have two dozen transmitters and you need to get data from all of them, your receiver simply has to listen and record whatever devices it sees and let the user software (possibly managing a gym leaderboard for a spin class) decide which ones to track.
Contrast with BLE where you would have to make a connection to each device. The overhead of connecting and disconnecting, in addition to being power-prohibitive, takes too long. Some manufacturers have workarounds to enable use of their BLE products in a group fitness environment, but they are pretty much lacking.
It'll be interesting to see how the problem is solved if indeed ANT+ does go away.
The answer to this (throughout the ages) should be the same: read the authoritative source of information. The official API docs, the official language specification, the man page, the textbook, the published paper, and so on.
Maybe I am showing my age, but one of the more frustrating parts of being a senior mentoring a junior is when they come with a question or problem, and when I ask: “what does the official documentation say?” I get a blank stare. We have moved from consulting the primary source of information to using secondary sources (like O’Reilly, blogs and tutorials), now to tertiary sources like LLMs.
If I have a problem with a USB datastream, the last place I'm going to look is the official USB spec. I'll be buried for weeks. The information may be there, but it will take me so long to find it that it might as well not.
The first place to look is a high quality source that has digested the official spec and regurgitated it into something more comprehensible.
[shudder] the amount of life that I've wasted discussing the meaning of some random phrase in IEC-62304 is time I will never get back!